Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaped to look (in the sea) like drifting barrels, entered the waters outside Pola Harbor with what they called their "machine." It was a converted torpedo the forward part of which consisted of two "war heads," metal cylinders each filled with 400 pounds of TNT, and equipped with both clockwork and contact detonators. The war heads were detachable from the main body of the machine. The torpedo would make two miles an hour and could be steered. In hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed...
...purchase of 19 U. S. freighters, each of 10,000 tons or less. Boasted First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander: "The stream of new ships is now coming steadily in from the yards. . . . Great convoys of food, raw materials, arms and men . . . sailed and arrived with clockwork regularity. . . . We cannot be beaten...
...Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
...both hemispheres, it owes as much to Juan Trippe's genius for a tough diplomatic bargain as it does to his uncompromising insistence on operating perfection. From Lisbon to Hong Kong, from Nome to Buenos Aires, its 63,000 miles of airways, its 263 bases, run like clockwork. Without Trippe's astute bar gaining in foreign capitals, without his engineer's supervision of technical development, it might today be no more impressive than Britain's conservative Imperial Airways...